Clothes-pin



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L. B. PRINDLE.

CLOTHES PIN. No. 329,487. Patented Nov. 3, 1885.

WITNESSES INVENTOR %%m/ a, $24.0 i/m'm ATTORNEY UNITED STATES ATENT OFFICE.

LYMAN B. PRINDLE, OF LITCHFIELD, CONNECTICUT.

CLOTH ES-PIN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 329,487, dated November 3, 1885.

Serial No. 14T, 31. (X0 model.)

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, LYMAN B. PRINDLE, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Litchfield, in the county of Litchfield and State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Clothes- Pins, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

This invention has relation to improvements in clothes-pins; and it consists in the novel construction and arrangement of the same, all as will be hereinafter more ,fully explained.

The annexed drawings, to which reference is made, fully illustrate my invention, in which Figure l is a side view of my pin, and Fig. 2 is a perspective view, showing my pin applied to a clothes-line.

Referring by letter to the accompanying drawings, A designates the clothes-pin, which is constructed in one piece, preferably of wire, and consists of the bars or arms a and b, which are bent at c at one end and provided with an eye, d, in the end of the bar a, while the barb is depressed, as at e, and provided with an eye,f, at its end, which engages the eye (I, thus locking the two ends together. Between the arms aforesaid is a space, g, which is wedge-shaped, the narrow portion being at the band 0, and widest portion at h.

It will be seen that in fastening articles to a clothes-line the wide part of the space is adjusted over the article, as shown in Fig. 2 of the drawings, after which the pin is drawn downwardly, thereby wedging the article and line between the arms, and the elasticity of the wire permits the pin to be used on thick or thin articles, and the depressed portion serves as a handle by which the pin is fastened and detached from the clothes. It will be observed that the union of the ends of bars or arms a b is made at the angle of the broadest part of the device below the points which grip the clothes on the line; also, that the curve at e, which forms the handle, is in the same plane as the two bars a b, thereby afi'ording great facility for using the device. It will also be observed that the bar I) diverges from the bar a from the point 0 and terminates in the open handle portion 0, which can be conveniently grasped in applying the device to or removing it from large or small articles hung on the line.

I am aware that clothes-pins made of wire with the ends thereof bent together and united by a ball and adapted to be hung upon a clothes'line are not new; also, that clothespins formed of a single wire loop the ends of which are fixed into a ball are not new, and therefore I broadly disclaim such devices.

Having described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, 1s-

The combination of the diverging arms a b, continuous at c, the open handle 6, and the illterlocking eyes df, located at the angle opposite the said open handle, as shown and described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence oftwo witnesses.

LYMAN B. PRINDLE.

XVitnesses:

O. H. PRINDLE, EDITH R. PRINDLE. 

